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India’s environment minister has blocked the construction of mines, power plants and dams. He’s held up a new airport and describes diesel cars as criminal. He’s even taken Harry Potter to task for promoting threatened owls as pets. Just a year and a half into the job, Jairam Ramesh has turned a once-marginal Environment Ministry [...]
Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has called for transparency in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 16) that concludes on Friday. Hosting a reception for dignitaries on his arrival here for COP16 (16th session of the Conference of the Parties), Shaikh Abdullah commended the Mexican government and Executive Secretary of [...]
Private investments in G-20 clean power projects could total $2.3 trillion by the end of the decade, according to a report released today by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Massive energy demand and strong clean energy policies will drive investment to Asia, led by China and India. However, by adopting such policies, every G-20 member has [...]
The Motor Trade Association (MTA) says a recent study by the NZ Transport Agency (NZTA) into air pollution overlooks at least one simple step that could be taken to reduce the level of contaminant in the air. MTA considers that the introduction of emission testing for all vehicles in the New Zealand fleet would be [...]
A female mountain gorilla sits in vegetation in the Bwindi Impenetrable For… The population of mountain gorillas in their main central African habitat has increased by a quarter in seven years, regional authorities said Tuesday. Most of the world’s mountain gorillas are found in the Virunga massif, which includes three contiguous national parks in Rwanda, [...]
The Philippine carabao, the country’s national animal, though not endemic, is likely to have descended from swamp buffaloes in China, a study has shown. An article published in the Biolife News Service said studies conducted by a team of geneticists from the Philippine Carabao Centre (PCC) had traced the carabao’s genetic lineage to buffaloes in [...]
After keeping the Forests Department on tenterhooks for nearly 72 hours, an elephant which strayed out of its habitat in the Thadagam Reserve Forest in Coimbatore district, gave in after getting two shots of a tranquiliser on Saturday evening. But, by then, the 26-year-old tusker had walked almost 55 km from the reserve forest and [...]